Details
- Explores the important, topical and controversial issues of the Powers of International Organizations, which include the UN, the WTO and also the EU
- Develops an original legal framework of the ways in which States hand over powers to International Organizations
- Winner of the 2006 American Society of International Law Book Prize and the 2006 Myres S. McDougal Prize awarded by the American Society for the Policy Sciences
This book considers the exercise of sovereign powers by international organizations that include the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and the European Union in order to answer fundamental questions about the relationship between an international organization and its Member States.
In their membership of international organizations, States must confer some of their sovereign powers upon those organizations. In this book, Sarooshi develops a three-tiered typology of conferrals which ranges from agency relationships, to delegations of authority, to full transfers of power. The legal aspects of these conferrals are examined, and their implications for the growing importance of international organizations in international relations are assessed.
Readership: Scholars and advanced students of constitutional law, international law and international relations. Officials of international organizations, and Foreign offices and other relevant government departments.
Foreword
President and Judge Rosalyn Higgins:
Table of cases
Introduction
1:: International Organizations as a Forum for the Contestation of Sovereign Powers
2:: The Processes by which States Confer Powers on International Organizations
3:: Conferrals by States of Powers on International Organizations: A Typology
4:: Agency relationships between States and International Organizations
5:: The Delegation of Powers to International Organizations
6:: The Ceding of Powers to International Organizations
7:: Measures a State can Take Against an International Organization on which it has Conferred Powers
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index
Dan Sarooshi, Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford
Contributors:
President and Judge Rosalyn Higgins DBE, QC, International Court of Justice
"This study confirms Professor Sarooshi as a leading writer today in the field of international organizations - a field in which he has immersed himself and taken on the challenge of its ever expanding and deepening nature. As with The United Nations and the Development of Collective Security, he has married impressive knowledge of detail with original conceptual thinking. The result is a book that is at once informative and challenging." - Judge Rosalyn Higgins, DBE, QC, President of the International Court of Justice
"This may be the most important future terrain for international law generally, and will also certainly challenge some of the fundamental assumptions of general international law. This is a path breaking work that provides important insights which practitioners and scholars will need as the world struggles with change and circumstances creating enormous risks but also great opportunities in the wake of economic, political, and scientific forces beyond the traditional controls available to individual nation states." - Professor John H. Jackson, Georgetown University Law Center
"The clarity and thoroughness of his analysis provides a firm foundation for the development of the law in this important area." - Professor Vaughan Lowe and Professor Ian Brownlie QC (Emeritus), Series Editors' Preface
"The backing of such a renowned and acclaimed author like Dan Sarooshi will undoubtedly shore up the credibility of such a progressive proposal." - Global Law Books
"Professor Sarooshi has examined in rich detail the many modes by which national powers are being conferred, transferred or delegated to international organizations to the point that sovereignty itself has become a "contestable" concept. This is an original and important book." - Professor Michael Reisman, Yale Law School
